Schoenberg's twelve-tone music : symmetry and the musical idea /
Jack Boss presents detailed analyses of Arnold Schoenberg''s twelve-tone pieces, bringing the composer''s ''musical idea'' - problem, elaboration, solution - to life.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2014.
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| Series: | Music since 1900.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
| Summary: | Jack Boss presents detailed analyses of Arnold Schoenberg''s twelve-tone pieces, bringing the composer''s ''musical idea'' - problem, elaboration, solution - to life. "Jack Boss takes a unique approach to analyzing Arnold Schoenberg's twelve-tone music, adapting the composer's notion of a 'musical idea' - problem, elaboration, solution - as a framework and focusing on the large-scale coherence of the whole piece. The book begins by defining 'musical idea' as a large, overarching process involving conflict between musical elements or situations, elaboration of that conflict, and resolution, and examines how such conflicts often involve symmetrical pitch and interval shapes that are obscured in some way. Containing close analytical readings of a large number of Schoenberg's key twelve-tone works, including Moses und Aron, the Suite for Piano Op. 25, the Fourth Quartet, and the String Trio, the study provides the reader with a clearer understanding of this still-controversial, challenging, but vitally important modernist composer." -- |
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| Item Description: | EBSCO eBook Academic Comprehensive Collection North America |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource : music |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781139871075 1139871072 9781107110786 1107110785 1139699245 9781139699242 1139862294 9781139862295 1139863215 9781139863216 1139861077 9781139861076 1107624924 9781107624924 1139868926 9781139868921 |
